13-letter words containing e
- acacia avenue — any middle-class suburban street.
- academic dean — a high-ranking academic official who oversees all the major academic operations including curriculum, workloads, and faculty budgets
- academic gown — a loose garment like a very light coat with wide sleeves worn over a person's outer clothes and indicating academic status
- academic rank — the rank held by members of academic staff having titles such as professor, associate professor, assistant professor, instructor etc
- academic year — the period of the year during which students attend school or university
- academy award — any of the annual awards for artistic and technical achievement given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- acaroid resin — an alcohol-soluble gum resin taken from various grass trees, used in varnishes, etc.: unique among natural resins because it forms a hard, insoluble, chemical-resistant film when heated
- acatamathesia — the inability to understand what the senses detect, in particular conversation
- accelerations — Plural form of acceleration.
- accelerograph — an accelerometer containing a pendulum device for measuring and recording ground motions produced by earthquakes.
- accelerometer — an instrument for measuring acceleration, esp of an aircraft or rocket
- accept a card — If a hotel or restaurant accepts a card, they agree that a credit card can be used to pay the bill.
- accept a risk — If an insurance company accepts a risk, it agrees to underwrite a risk or to accept a person or company as a client.
- acceptability — capable or worthy of being accepted.
- acceptilation — the cancellation of debt and the release from payment
- acceptingness — the state or quality of being accepting
- access broker — a lobbyist or public-relations executive who was formerly a political figure or otherwise has connections to high officials in a governmental administration.
- access charge — a fee charged to long-distance telephone companies and their customers by a local telephone company for use of its lines.
- access course — An access course is an educational course which prepares adults with few or no qualifications for study at a university or other place of higher education.
- access method — a method of accessing data read from or written to an external storage medium, determined by software and the organization of data on the medium.
- accessability — Misspelling of accessibility.
- accessariness — The state of being accessary.
- accessibility — easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, or use.
- accessible to — likely to be affected by; open to; susceptible to
- accessorizing — to fit or equip with accessories: to accessorize a car with special seat covers.
- accident boat — a boat kept suspended outboard so that it can be lowered immediately if someone falls overboard.
- accident tout — ambulance chaser.
- accidentalism — the state of being accidental
- accidentality — the state of being accidental
- accidentology — the study of the prevention of accidents
- acclimatement — (rare) Acclimation.
- accommodative — tending to accommodate; adaptive.
- accompaniment — The accompaniment to a song or tune is the music that is played at the same time as it and forms a background to it.
- accouchements — Plural form of accouchement.
- accouterments — personal clothing, accessories, etc.
- accoutrements — all the things you have with you when you travel or take part in a particular activity, such as clothing and equipment
- accreditation — to ascribe or attribute to (usually followed by with): He was accredited with having said it.
- accroides gum — acaroid resin.
- acculturative — relating to or resulting in acculturation
- accustomed to — customary; usual; habitual: in their accustomed manner.
- ace inhibitor — any one of a class of drugs, including captopril, enalapril, and ramipril, that cause the arteries to widen by preventing the synthesis of angiotensin: used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure
- ace of spades — playing card, sometimes considered omen of death
- acetabuliform — saucer-shaped, as the fruiting bodies of certain lichens.
- acetaminophen — a white crystalline powder, CH3CONHC6H4OH, used for reducing fever and relieving pain
- acetanisidine — methacetin.
- acetate rayon — a synthetic textile fibre made from cellulose acetate
- acetate-rayon — Chemistry. a salt or ester of acetic acid.
- acetazolamide — a drug which operates by blocking the production of hydrogen ions and hydrogen carbonate, used to treat various conditions including epilepsy and glaucoma
- acetohexamide — (pharmaceutical drug) A sulfonylurea antidiabetic drug.
- acetylaniline — acetanilide.